The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

LXXI, 49. RULES FOR A SNATAKA. 227
31. Nor at one intoxicated ;
32. He must not throw any impure substances
into the fire ;
33. Nor blood; 34. Nor poison;
35. Neither (must he throw any of those sub-
stances) into water.
36. He must not step over a fire.
37. He must not warm his feet (by the fire).
38. He must not wipe (the dirt from his feet)
with blades of Kma grass.
39. He must not wash (his feet) in a vessel of
white copper.
40. He must not (wash) one foot with the other.
41. He must not scratch the ground (with a
piece of wood or the like).
42. He must not crush clods of earth.
43. He must not cut grass.
44. He must not tear his nails or the hairs (of
his beard or others) with his teeth.
45. He must avoid gambling ;
46. And the heat of the sun just risen.
47. He must not wear a garment, or shoes, or a
garland, or a sacrificial string which had before been
worn by another.
48. He must not give advice to a 5udra;
49. Nor (must he give him) the leavings of his
food, nor the residue of an oblation (unless he is
his own servant);
46. Besides the above interpretation of the term balatapa, which
is proposed by Kulluka also (on M. IV, 69), Nand. mentions two
others: 1. the heat of that time of the day when the cows are
collected for milking; 2. the heat of the autumn season. The
particle £a, according to Nand., is used in order to include the
smoke of a burning corpse and the other forbidden objects men-
tioned by Manu IV, 69.

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